Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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• George Orwell:

  Big Brother is watching you.

• George Orwell:

  Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and

• George Orwell:

  It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequent

• George Orwell:

  In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, an

• George Orwell:

  In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

• George Orwell:

  We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent me

• George Orwell:

  Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

• George Santayana:

  Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

• George Santayana:

  I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

• George Santayana:

  Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.